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Message-ID: <adawt0k3lt1.fsf@cisco.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:17:30 -0700 From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> To: general@...ts.openfabrics.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: RFC: "mlx4" drivers for Mellanox ConnectX HCAs I'd like to announce preliminary versions of a set of "mlx4" drivers for Mellanox's new ConnectX InfiniBand/10 gigabit ethernet adapters. (These are Mellanox's 4th generation of adapters, hence the mlx4 name) Because these adapters can operate as both an ethernet NIC and an InfiniBand HCA (at the same time!), the driver is split up into three pieces: mlx4_core: Basic support for hardware, managing resources, sending commands to firmware, etc. Lives in drivers/net/mlx4 (so that it gets built in a natural way for ethernet support, even if CONFIG_INFINIBAND=n) and exports its API in include/linux/mlx4. mlx4_ib: InfiniBand HCA driver, sits between the IB midlayer and mlx4_core. Lives in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4. mlx4_eth: Ethernet NIC driver, sits between networking stack and mlx4_core. Also lives in drivers/net/mlx4. This is just a stub right now, because firmware support for ethernet mode is still too immature. In fact, the ConnectX hardware has support for fibre channel stuff too, so in the future there may also be an FC HBA driver layered on top of mlx4_core as well. I will post a full set of patches for review via email once I've had a chance to clean things up and split things into reasonable sized chunks (the full patch is > 300 KB right now), but for those who are interested, you can grab the connectx branch of my infiniband.git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git connectx I've also put this code in my for-mm branch, so it should appear in the next -mm kernel whenever Andrew has time to get one out. Any and all comments are appreciated; my current plan is to merge the mlx4_core and mlx4_ib drivers for 2.6.22, and I hope that mlx4_eth will be ready for 2.6.23. I've tried to flag areas that are not fully implemented or still need work, and there are quite a few places that need cleanup, but the driver is at least able to run IP-over-InfiniBand and some basic userspace direct access tests. Speaking of direct access, a preliminary version of a userspace driver that works with libibverbs is available from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/infiniband/libmlx4.git Thanks to the crew at Mellanox for lots of help with sample code and debugging, as well as early access to the hardware! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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